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I used to be a big believer in the enormous potential of genomics, and each of my two previous books, Fantastic Voyage and TRANSCEND: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, had chapters devoted to this topic. The relevant chapter in the earlier book, Fantastic Voyage, published in 2004, was titled “The Promise of Genomics.” My co-author in these books, Ray Kurzweil, is widely r...

6:00: I wake up euphoric after a wonderful night of programmed dreams. After climbing out of my deprivation pod, I challenge my synthetic heart with 350 pushups — the recommended workout for a 114-year old. Next I gaze out the window of my 153rd floor home at the other Farmpartments, all energy self-sufficient and covered with dwarf fruit that the robo-monkeys pick for us in the ni...

If Iran's recently announced Surena 2 robot had its speech and vision modules in place, it would surely speak Farsi — Iranian Persian. Looking somewhat like Honda's ASIMO, Iranian state television claims the Surena 2 robot weighs 99 pounds (45 kg) and is 4.76 feet (145 cm) tall. It was developed by more than 20 robotics experts at Tehran University.

In a previous posts on Graphene, I stated that we were making numerous advances — so many that it sometimes seemed like new ones were coming almost every day. Well, here's a brief update which covers some of the advances towards graphene electronics that have occurred since my previous article. From PHYSORG.COM

Open Source Science is on the rise and transparency and collaboration are the waves of the future. Now, following on the heels of the Humanity+ Citizen Scientist Conference, Joseph P. Jackson has organized an Open Science Summit 2010, coming up on July 29-31 in Berkeley, California. Calling Open Science an "Organizational Revolution,"Jackson's group promises to &quot...

Eliezer Yudkowsky is an employee with the Singularity Institute, a non-profit devoted to developing human-level or smarter-than-human Artificial Intelligence from a self-improving seed. The Institute also puts on the annual Singularity Summit, a conference that draws various scientists, futurists, businesspeople, and laypeople to discuss emerging technologies and their implications, es...

In 2008, NASA quietly announced the first successful test of a deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. The new software protocol was jointly developed with Google’s Vint Cerf and is being deployed on the International Space Station as a first step in what could become an Interplanetary Internet. The software protocol is an attempt to deal with t...

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